A federal judge on Wednesday blocked Arkansas’ law banning transgender surgery and hormones for children after civil liberties groups went to court to overturn the …
A federal judge on Wednesday blocked Arkansas’ law banning transgender surgery and hormones for children after civil liberties groups went to court to overturn the bar on gender dysphoria treatment. Judge Jay Moody, an Obama appointee, granted a request for an injunction, preventing enforcement of the law while the case proceeds. “To pull this care midstream from these patients, or minors, would cause irreparable harm,” the judge said, according to the Associated Press. The American Civil Liberties Union, representing families of transgender youth, filed a lawsuit in May to upend Arkansas’ Save Adolescents From Experimentation Act. The law bans transgender medical treatment, including puberty blockers and surgery, to anyone under 18 years old.
